CS5430: System Security (Spring 2026)

Course Overview and Organization.

Lecture times, teaching staff, office hours, prerequisites, assignments and grading policy.

Topic Outline.

High-level listing of topics to be covered along with recommended readings.

Announcements

• [1/21] The midterm examination is the evening of March 12 (Thursday). Here is an an old exam and the solutions. This semester's class will cover topics in a different order, so some of the questions asked on that old exam concern material that our exam will not cover. However, the older exam should give a flavor for the style of questions. There are no old exams available for the ordering of topics we use this semester.
• [1/21] TA office hours. TA office hours begin the week of January 26. Times and places will be listed in Course Overview and Organization

Homework

• Project Phase 0 (extending a key-value store) due 2/6 at 11:59pm.
• Project Phase 1 (DAC authorization for key-value store) due 2/27 at 11:59pm.
• Project Phase 2 (MAC authorization for key-value store) due 3/18 at 11:59pm.
• Project Phase 3 (Secure channels for key-value store) Part 1 due 3/27 at 11:59pm; Part 2 due 4/17 at 1159pm.